DBMS > Dgraph vs. Heroic vs. Hive vs. jBASE vs. Postgres-XL

System Properties Comparison Dgraph vs. Heroic vs. Hive vs. jBASE vs. Postgres-XL

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Name

Description

Distributed and scalable native Graph DBMS

Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch

data warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on Hadoop

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	1.53
Rank	#152	Overall
	#15	Graph DBMS

Score	0.46
Rank	#265	Overall
	#22	Time Series DBMS

Score	59.76
Rank	#18	Overall
	#12	Relational DBMS

Score	1.49
Rank	#156	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.53
Rank	#254	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Website

dgraph.io

github.com/spotify/heroic

hive.apache.org

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-jbase

www.postgres-xl.org

Technical documentation

dgraph.io/docs

spotify.github.io/heroic

cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/Home

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

Developer

Dgraph Labs, Inc.

Spotify

Apache Software Foundation

initially developed by Facebook

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Initial release

2016

2014

2012

1991

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

Current release

3.1.3, April 2022

5.7

10 R1, October 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

Open Source

Mozilla public license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

AIX
Linux
Windows

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

XML type, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

yes

via Elasticsearch

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

APIs and other access methods

GraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API

HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

C++
Java
PHP
Python

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Synchronous replication via Raft

yes

selectable replication factor

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

query execution via MapReduce

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

MVCC

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Planned for future releases

Access rights for users, groups and roles

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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